GSC Game World, publisher of the highly-acclaimed Survival FPS S.T.A.L.K.E.R. title, is glad to announce today that a new project in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series is on its way – S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat for PC. Call of Pripyat is the working title of the game, so it might change before the final game is released. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat will become the third stand-alone game from the series. The events in the game unfold shortly after the end of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. Having discovered about the open path to the Zone center, the government decides to hold a large-scale military "Fairway" operation aimed to take the CNPP under control. However, the operation becomes a major fail, and a team of Ukraine Security Service agents is sent to collect information on reasons behind the operation's bad ending. Players will take on the role of an agent, and write their own story from that point on. The title is slated for release in fall 2009. Below are some of the main features of this new exciting game.

I have retired building systems based on just a single CPU. I build 2cpu systems, which, if you populate with JUST ONE CPU, costs approx $150/EUR150 more to build than a regular enthusiast single socket system. Then, at any point you find a "deal" on ebay, you fill the second socket to double (multi-threaded) performance.

Current rig is one of these:

End of year I'll do a Nehalem EP system. I dont like being at the bleeding edge... typically the second generation of the motherboards for a new CPU is much better than the first... and price premia have narrowed.

It means I'm always 6-12 months behind the leading edge... but with the dual CPU I'm still ahead of the single socket enthusiasts.

Horses for courses. A heavily OC water cooled single-socket enthusiast will out benchmark me on a superpi etc. But I will fully out-crunch them on video editing, encoding, photoshop, numerical solutions, folding, etc. :pimp:

I'm sticking with my current hardware. They're gonna optimized it to the fullest and I can already run Clear Sky beautifully with DX10.1 so this should be even better. If not I can wait for the FX80's :D

Screenshot looks very nice, esp. long distance detail and sky. Grass still looks funky though. They never quite sorted that out.

I wonder how much we will have to upgrade our machines to play this one... let's hope the game engine uses multithreading to the max so that my non-overclocked 8 core can still burn through the code.

I don't know... the screeny looks exactly like Clear Sky did for me so I don't think we'll have much (if any) upgrading to do.

I guess my experience with the game was a little better than most peoples. I was able to play through it once without any major bugs. As soon as I started my 2nd go with it TAGES kicked in and now my DVD isn't recognized anymore. :banghead:

Ever since the First STALKER I was all hyped up. I played the first one admired it and its look then but never got used to the gameplay. I even was bold enough to try STALKER Clear Sky due to its acclaimed graphics. However Clear Sky's graphics is overrated and the gameplay pissed me off. I put that shit on easy and was still getting pwned, not the first time I played an FPS you know and the graphics are weak in my opinion better then most modern games but I actually feel as if Crysis was more optimized then it performance to looks ratio. I respect peoples views on the game and hey as long as you enjoyed it who cares right?